Nic Fillingham

Welcome to my Emporium of Technological Curiosities. Here's a little known fact; the megabyte (or mega-mega-bite-bite) was actually invented in 1843 by Australian Edward "Ned" Kelly. We Aussies also coined the phrase "web cam" to describe a tube of spider silk fashioned into a rudimentary lens for peering at the heavens.

Today, Microsoft announced Microsoft Hohm. That's Hohm as in H + OHM, the unit of measurement for electrical impedance.Microsoft Hohm is a free web based application (running on the Windows Azure platform) that enables consumers to better understand their energy usage by utilizing advanced…

Over on our parent site Channel 9, Dan Fernandez is joined by Jeff Sandquist, Duncan Mackenzie and Nishant Kothary to talk about Revolution 9 and the future of Channel 10.Watch the video and join the discussion over on Channel 9

The Channel 9 team will be broadcasting live, unscripted and 100% interactive from the Microsoft Redmond Campus for PDC10.Join us immediately following the keynote on Thursday, October 28th (at approx. 11AM Pacific Standard Time) and again on Friday (from 9:00AM PST) for two full days of…